aaaa ha ha ha Dude sad Homo Erectus ;).
ok i am a old school Beavers and but head fan!
are you also aware of the population bottleneck in evolution, which they found out about a few years ago? Apparently something for the time of proper recorded history reduced the world's population of humans as well as a lot of other life forms dramatically! They figure the world's population was reduced to around 1500 or so people and all the people in the world are a descendent of this small global Mass of surviving humans. Kind of trippy to realize they don't even know what wiped out all those people and life in general. Sort of like a secondary extinction event like wiping out dinosaurs but sometime later.
> > Edward Fox
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> The other species of humans that were around with us were Homo Neanderthalensis and Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus went extinct from the Toba Eruption, but Homo Neanderthalensis went extinct from a number of factors (one of which would have been warfare with us Homo Sapiens). The entire species of Homo Sapiens is 99.99% genetically compatible with each other, while Homo Neanderthalensis was 99.5% genetically compatible with us (not sure about Homo Erectus though). There is genetic evidence that some modern humans, European peoples to be exact, are carrying Neanderthal genes.
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> If these species hadn't died out, then the nations that exist today would not be existing; nor would our civilization in its current form for that matter. Racism would have definitely been taken to a whole new dimension, given that they were more genetically distant from us.
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> -Brandon Payne
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Received on Tue Oct 09 2012 - 15:45:48 CDT